Sign



July 19, A1938. E. M. TALLBERG 2,124,440A

SIGN

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Patented Juiy 179V, 1938 SIGN Einer Martin Tallberg, Detroit,

Die-Casting Company, Mich., a corporation of Michigan Application April 1, 1937,

to Michigan 8 Claims.

The object of this invention is to provide means for adjustably mounting a sign, consisting of individual initials, monograms, insignia, ornaments, or any other device that can be so mounted upon an automobile or any other 1device where a mounting of this vtype can be utilized. The problem is to provide a device that is cheap to manufacture, easy to install, convenient to assemble, and which will be securely locked in place.

Figure 1 .shows the device in elevation, as mounted on a metal surface of a car.

Figure 2 shows a plan'view from below.

Figure 3 Figure 1.

Figure 4 shows a cross sectional elevation taken on plane 4-4 of Figure 1.

In the figures: H represents the sheet metal wall to which the letters are attached.

BAR corresponds to the initials BA-R mounted on a metal bar M Which has a recess D in the back. A bent steel C-shaped piece E yieldably engages the letter R with the bar M. The recess or groove D in the back or side of the bar is not continued for' the entire length of the bar but stops at any desired or given point. The spring or G-shaped steel piece is flexible enough to slide over that portion of the bar which is not grooved or recessed, but when once it engages with the groove or recess it cannot move or be adjusted beyond the limits of the groove and is thereby securely locked in place. The brass or steel bolts F and G are staked into the bar M, which is of Zinc are the letters B--A.-R. The C-shaped pieces E are of spring steel and have a hole in the middle of the'C by means of which the letters are riveted on their inner sides to the spring piece E. To facilitate assembling, the nuts K, K are what is known as speed nuts and are made of hardened tool steel. The function of these speednuts is to hold the studs perpendicular to the strap J. The studs are thus held in parallel alignment with each other. When the bar M is drawn down to the sheet steel wall 1-1 it is held at to prevent buckling, as the rounded ends of the C-shaped springs E engage with the surface of the Wall H. The plate J serves as a seat for the speed nuts K, K and also to maintain the studs F, G in alignment perpendicular to the sheet metal wall 1-1. l

Although the letters are locked in place, they can be moved if tapped with a wooden mallet so that they can be adjusted shows Aa rear view corresponding to of Figure 1 viewed` PATENT oFFicE Mich., assignor Detroit,

Serial No. 134,216

(Cl. IML-140) in place. It will be noticed that the groove D does not extend the full length of the bar M. This brings about an improvement when the unit is shipped through the mails. The letters do not drop off the bar because they cannot pass the ends as the grooves do not extend beyond the holes where the studs are embedded. It will be noticed that the letters are riveted to the spring by the same material as that of the letter itself. The rivet is integral with the letter, hence the outer surface of the letter is not disfigured by the rivet, as would be the case if a separat-e rivet were used.

What I claim is:

1. Means for mounting identifying selected symbols of die cast material to a sheet of thin material comprising a supporting bar, individual symbols, a flat spring strip of hardened tempered and formed steel stock slidably embracing said bar and rigidly locked so as to support said symbols on said bar, means for bolting said bar to said thin sheet whereby the open ends of the formed spring steel strip are pressed between said bar and said sheet and the symbols are thus locked in place.

2. A device as set forth in claim 1, in which the bar is grooved and the open ends of said formed steel piece enter in and engage with said groove.

3. A device as set forth in claim 1, in which the bolting means are extended and an aligning strip engages with said extended bolts and is locked thereto by means of speed nuts.

4;. `A display device comprising a plurality of symbols in outline, an elongated rectangular bar, a spring locked to the rear of each symbol and slidably engaging with the rear of the bar, a supporting Wall, means for pressing the bar against the wall whereby each spring is vpressed against the bar and the symbols are thus secured in place so as toy permit them to be adjustably located on the bar after they are assembled in place.

5. A monogram `for automobiles comprising a supporting bar, initials outlined in metal, C- shaped springs engaging with said bar and mount- 4 ed one on each of said initials, means for pressing said bar against a wall so as to compressI the ends of said springs between the bar and the wall, so as to secure the initials in place and to permit them to be adjustably located on the bar. f

6. A sign comprising an elongated rectangularl bar, two: threaded studs embedded in said bar at each end thereof so as to project rearwardly through a thin supporting Wall, a C-shaped spring embracing said bar with the open ends of the middle of the reati*Y of: the symbol being riveted to said spring.

8. A display device comprising a symbol in EINER MARTIN TALLBERG. 

